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WASHINGTON, July 29- Daniel Hawke, a 16- year veteran at the Securities and Exchange Commission who helped lead major high-profile enforcement cases against stock exchanges and brokerages, is planning to leave the agency in August, the SEC announced on Wednesday. Hawke, who heads the SEC enforcement division's market abuse unit, is a well-known figure among...

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*NYSE resumes trade after three-hour halt. July 8- U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Wednesday as market turmoil in China eclipsed Greece's debt crisis, while the New York Stock Exchange suffered a major outage. The NYSE, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc, resumed trade late in the session after a technical problem forced a suspension for more than three...

*NYSE resumes trade after three-hour halt. July 8- U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent in afternoon trading on Wednesday as market turmoil in China eclipsed Greece's debt crisis, while trading on the New York Stock Exchange resumed after a three-hour halt. The NYSE, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc, resumed trade at 3:10 p.m. EDT after technical problem...

*NYSE hopes to fully reopen for trading by 3:10 p.m. ET. *NYSE- listed issues still trading on other exchanges. A unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc, NYSE said the halt, which occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. EDT, was not the result of a cyberattack.

*NYSE- listed issues still trading on other exchanges. *NYSE says technical issue not due to cyber attack. The halt started just after 11:30 a.m. ET due to technical difficulties, although NYSE- listed issues continued to trade on other exchanges, such as those run by Nasdaq OMX Group and BATS Global Markets.

*NYSE- listed issues still trading on other exchanges. *NYSE says technical issue not due to cyber attack. July 8- Trading in all securities was halted on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday due to technical difficulties, although NYSE- listed issues continued to trade on other exchanges, such as those run by Nasdaq OMX Group and BATS Global Markets.

NEW YORK, July 8- The NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange, has suspended trading in all securities due to technical difficulties, the unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc said on Wednesday. The stocks continue to trade on other exchanges, such as those run by Nasdaq OMX Group and BATS Global Markets. "It's under control," Mark Otto of market maker J....

NEW YORK, June 24- Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group Inc said on Wednesday it partnered with blockchain infrastructure provider Chain to make digital ledger technology available to private companies that issue and transfer shares on the Nasdaq Private Market. The blockchain is a shared distributed ledger that records and is the repository of digital...

FRANKFURT, June 15- Deutsche Boerse is looking at the possibility of buying currency trading platform 360 T, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday, although it was not yet clear if the German exchange operator will place a binding bid. Deutsche Boerse declined to comment on whether it was bidding, while 360 T, one of a handful of multi-bank, multi-user...

NEW YORK, June 10- Wall Street's self-funded watchdog said on Wednesday it may cut the fees it charges to professional users, like banks, of its weekly report on off-exchange trading volumes in order to make the information more accessible following industry complaints. "We are looking hard at reducing or eliminating those fees," Richard Ketchum, chief executive...

Issues like the cost of trading on exchanges, trading incentives and broker standards, were discussed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Market Structure Advisory Committee at its day-long meeting in Washington, D.C. The panel's 17 members include representatives from fund companies, an exchange, off-exchange trading venues, dealers and...

May 5- BATS Global Markets said on Tuesday it filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to no longer offer trading in thinly traded stocks. BATS said the proposal, if implemented, would keep trading in the designated stocks on either the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange. The securities industry has bandied about...

April 30- CME Group Inc, the world's largest futures exchange operator, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, driven by increased trading volumes. Net income attributable to CME Group rose about 24 percent to $330.4 million, or 98 cents a share, in the first quarter ended March 31, from a year earlier. The company has been in the spotlight after U.S....

District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said the claims raised against Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange Inc's New York Stock Exchange, BATS Exchange and other exchanges must be reviewed first by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, not the courts. Forrest, however, said Congress created a "comprehensive federal regulatory scheme" empowering...

SAN FRANCISCO/ CHICAGO, April 24- The UK- based trader accused by U.S. authorities of making more than $40 million manipulating markets and contributing to the 2010 Wall Street flash crash was on the losing end of at least one trade: his purchase of the CME Group seat that helped to make the alleged scheme possible. Navinder Sarao bought the seat in May 2008 for...

NEW YORK, April 23- In a first for a U.S. stock exchange, Nasdaq OMX Group on Thursday agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving its bungling of Facebook Inc's $16 billion initial public offering, the plaintiffs' lawyers said. "This is the first case that we are aware of where a class of investors has sued an exchange for market disruption,...